Roman essays and interpretations.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Gracchus, Caius Sempronius; Horace.; Caesar, Julius.; Laudatio Turiae; Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903.; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 1776-1831; Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Virgil.; Latin literature -- History and criticism; Rome (city) -- Antiquities
Table of contents: title: The Latin history of the word Religio; The original meaning of the word Sacer; Mundus Patet; The oak and the Thunder-God; The religious meaning of the Toga Praetexta of Roman children; Was the Flaminica Dialis priestess of Juno?; The origin of the Lar familiaris; Fortuna primigenia; Passing under the yoke; Note on privately dedicated Roman altars; The Pontifices and the Feriae: the law of rest-days; On the date of the Rhetorica ad Herennium; The lex frumentaria of Gaius Gracchus; The Carmen saeculare of Horace and its first performance; On the Laudatio Turiae and its additional fragments; An unnoticed trait in the character of Julius Caesar; Ancient Italy and modern Borneo; Parallela quaedam; The great serpent of the River Bagradas; Vergiliana; Notes on Horace; Barthold Georg Niebuhr, a sketch; Theodor Mommsen: his life and work; The tragic element in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; Index of Latin words and phrases.